it's time to take. things. toward your own just such the. fun for the troops. is hard to overcome. and comfortable. it's time for the. reviews coming up ahead. barnes. this is due to every news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes dissent in guinea several people are dead after price he is challenging the president's rule i'll talk to the politicians organizing the demonstrations also on the program in between you can see that room and that right in south africa look even in countries with these awards. we have great was used as a tool for easy that i mean you don't see women in south africa oscar am i next

to a recent spike in rapes and murders. hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa when guinea is president alpha condé 1st one poly in 2010 many hope the country had turned a new leaf he's coming off to a quarter century of terri and roll now there are demonstrations to stop condos plans to change the constitution a change which would allow him to seek the term the opposition says at least 5 people have been killed as security forces crackdown protests have taken place in the capital conakry the 2nd city in the bay as well as in cities across the country mom will all k. and both us. kiryas industries of cognac free violence us

demonstrations turned deadly on monday. police opened fire to disperse thousands of opposition supporters gathered in the capital and across the country to protest president al franken this beat to extend his time in office. today we came out against the regime of president condy and his combat that's why we asked all canadians to come out today to say no to what his government is doing no to dictatorship no to constitutional and no to a 3rd term constitution not. this 2nd and final term expires next year but he's refusing to rule out running again the 81 year old

president has its government to draft a new constitution that could hand him the chance to seek a 3rd term security forces have stopped opposition leaders from leaving their homes civil society leaders where detained over the weekend and uscis arrested weren't protesting they say the crackdown wants to target them that it is a great success a great success as you may have noticed never before has a demonstration paralyzed the capital city cannot create this much. and cannot prove remains paralyzed the opposition promising that they want to keep their protests. now joined by. chief of staff and spokesperson of the heat off again a in opposition and former prime minister. welcome to do it every african that yes so you mobilize people to come out what is the way forward. the

people of in a responded massively to the 2nd issue reach a zoo national from for the defense of the constitution called to protest against the constitution or could it tell them the plain assassination of our democracy it is thought control mentioned the people in a movie lighting event any change in the goal to chew shown will sort out those is to grunt. good to us like on the and restart up to defend our constitution including return limitation and give a critique and generation. and that is the president saying skinny needs a modern constitution surely there's nothing wrong with that. well which provisions of the current constitution are in conflict with modernity and cannot be amended by refugee and this is a crucial question to x. because we have a constitution which is comparable to that of my the absolute god of ghana looking

up fast to those who has the most important question is why is he proposing it on the eve of e.c. can't and last time when he had 9 years to do so we have a lot of economic issues to deal with in the country ricci's the 1st one in 10 of his silos is saddam's secret sort of my nose. and that your party the unity of key helped found the civil society group organizing the protests just give us a sense of what the political landscape looks like or what could a political compromise with president condy potentially look like is that possible . with the current political situation is good is correct for lack of separation of powers because institutions should read in a 200 secondary reconstitution and lows of the republic of 20 violet tea that can mention exist before the decision of the administration and the sellers and must

see violations of human right to prevention of pretty carefree them including the right to demonstrate and more importantly the impunity because we have no heat that people are measured in cannot feed all miguel a 5 without any investigation and risk to tell you what you would like a we're talking about a pretty good compromise once we look for what 3 acts for the bollard to do is to return to athens on this new constitution in order to obtain a further term to finalize very local elections to restart the freedom to demonstrate reaches been saying since july 2018 of an ice free and transparent parliamentary election on the bases of the realities to each contention and louis biding time to because that importance really needs some smoove transition in africa we don't want but count in this country and that's why the

people of guinea is moving large country real women mobilized on to the satisfaction of the watch we are looking for nadia naaman and conakry she is the spokesperson for ghana an opposition leader thank you thank you christina. women in south africa have been asking the question am i mixed that's because there's been a recent surge in murders and crimes sexual crimes against women in the country now in the capital pretoria more than 1000 policemen and women demonstrated against gender based violence some held up signs that read it hurts house police offices to pick up bodies of women and children and vulnerable groups on a daily basis. now you're about to meet one woman who was a rape survivor and is now raising her voice for this.

way we all acknowledge it's called manta spock on the 20th of july 19th 18 i was gang raped at the spark and my friend killed city months before my 16th birthday this happened to me. i'm caroline peters i'm afraid i'm 54 years old i'm a fame unless i'm a gender activist you know and i'm a human rights campaigner even when my dog is the place of days i would get up and go and run and i saw the benefit running for me at the same time i was city municipality upgrades of the spock and remember this is a book that i've never set foot there since when the time when i was that i. and i say to my daughter we're going to reclaim that space never again these 90 is going to be a negative thing for me it's going to be something positive we're going to both something big from the so that is our 9th this was founded it was about the

reclaiming the space bringing their positivity that are running gave me to other women in our community land for me with a club it was more than just a running club it was a social space we women get to pave the way we talk to each other you know when we go out to run our we say to the women speak to the one next to you you know when we go out we don't know what she's what she's going through for the day. it's been so much happening over the last weeks that i'm physically emotionally mentally sick and kind because of what's happening in our country so you have many that kills that's killed in a post office for goodness sake in a post office and then you have j c s killed in a flecked with a grandfather raped and killed and i want to say if i put in killed it's not just kill they've been violated in all forms every 26 seconds is a woman that right in south africa look even in countries where there is

a war. we're a presumes there's a tool of war is there that many rapes we need to as so society could lift of and raise our voices and say it's not ok what needs to change the system of apartheid if we do not go back to the total mom their communities faced if we do not speak about the elephant in the room for me about what happened to my father as a as an older man no black man. a way he leaves a moment abuse my mother because he was abused at these will play a place of work and nobody speaks about that that we actually suffer from generational to norma we know we're going to teach our boys how to respect our goals our young our young men to the young women how do we change that for me we

can do all this work with women we can tell them you don't take this and and we empower them back to what needs to be done with boys and young men and men we need men to stop abusing women we need for more programs for them the in the into dying to empower women so we build more prisons we build more shelters but when are we going to change the mindset of those people whom we need to say too many to not we need maybe to say to other men it's not oakley we need men we need men to stand up and say. but rather it is not token elmos want to say is our government c.d.'s about changing our police or not same zip ties to dijon system is not up to standard so justice even i think nothing is working for women you know so we need immediate action and i am glad that we are at this stage of a revolt there is a revolution and therefore our president had to respond to this. place event is not

clearly set out a path forward for how are we going to engender based violence and not just about 50 actually given a budget towards the well we've got the basic rule of law is we've got the best x. we've got legislation is the it's about the implementation of the legislation so we can have all the basic laws everything while however when there's no back to implement the same it's all just paper i want to hold government accountable i want to hold out police again settle them oppose accountable for what he said in parliament so my opie's that all this ends i'm hopeful and i'm praying for what makes me get up daily is to see that my sister to see that my daughters are safe to see that my granddaughter is safe and so i love another day just to make sure they're my sister's ok. that was caroline from cape

town and that is it for news africa as always you can catch stories on our facebook page today will leave you with pictures of women in south africa collectively raising their voices and saying it's not ok.

and welcome to news from the world of ops and culture this is what's coming up today. abhi joined here in the studio by the world famous author of the swarm frank should sing has turned his attention to news in. the city of bag and in norway is a literary hard for all sorts of strange reasons we'll find out about. frank

said seeing is best known internationally for his science fiction novel the swarm where nature starts punishing humanity for its misdeeds 1st published 15 years ago it now seems rather prophetic when you look at the current situation with climate change however right now frank said singh has put down the pen picked up the guitar and has abuse it project called taxi galaxy he'll tell me why after this. function single scene in his element on stage in front of an audience he likes to entertain but also to shake people up in 2009 the author presented his thriller limit it's a mix of science fiction crime story and science like his most popular novel the swarm published in 2004 the bestseller about a threat from the depths of the ocean has been translated into 27 languages and made its author who study communication studies

a very rich man. but chatting has still clung to a lifelong dream since the age of 50.